Helping your kids with math

A woman, a mother, an educator, a counselor, artist, writer... Born in California... settled for now near Amsterdam.

Lots of people really hate math and often get stressed to the point of paralysis by the very thought of having to take a math exam. I have a teenager like that, and have been one of those people too.

 

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Teen drinking – Do as the natives do?

A woman, a mother, an educator, a counselor, artist, writer... Born in California... settled for now near Amsterdam.

 

While in the USA the legal age to purchase and consume alcohol is a whopping 21, here in Holland, it’s much younger.  My daughter turned sweet 16 last month. For about a year she has been prepping me. “Mom, about my party…”

 

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